On 20/10/06, Roy T. Fielding <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Oct 20, 2006, at 3:34 AM, Tim Ellison wrote:
> To be clear, our snapshots are more than a simple snap of
> Subversion --
> we (the Harmony community) discuss the right time to create the
> development snapshot to accommodate known instability caused by
> work in
> flight, publish the snapshot with the required incubator disclaimers,
> license and notice files etc., and encourage people to test them and
> report problems before we announce them on our website news page.
No, to be clear, a snapshot is (by definition) a simple snap of svn.
What you are calling a snapshot would be what *we* call a developer
release -- the only difference is that you haven't tagged the revisions
(just using recorded revision numbers) and you haven't signed the
packages.
In other words, if you have a PGP/GPG key, it would take you less time
to satisfy the Incubator PMC than it did for me to write this message.
> Conducting a release, even a faux release, is probably a make-work
> task
> -- I believe we can do it if that is the only concern, just don't move
> the goalposts until we get back ;-)
You see, this is why the process is needed. You have apparently been
doing developer releases all this time, minus the two tiny steps needed
to make them complete. A full release is just a developer release plus
formal vote, which is not necessary at this time given the roadmap.
Becoming a TLP means that you already know this stuff and can enforce
it without any worries from the board. If this is the last thing you
needed to know, that's great. [And if the mentors would just shut up
for a minute and let the project prove itself, maybe you can graduate.
That is, if anyone ever bothers to call a vote.]
Ack -- comments duly taken on-board.
I was able to attend a US an EU ApacheCon and get my key signed by a
number of members, and in turn sign a number of other peoples', so I
believe that all the pieces are in place for me, and others in
Harmony, to conduct a bona fide release (development release or
otherwise).
Regards,
Tim
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Tim Ellison ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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